14th Day

What else could we find in the market? The choices of dates this year are quite disappointing. There seems to be only Tunisian and Iranian types available with a noticeable absence of Jordanian dates. We have not been to the bigger weekend market in Beverwijk which is more like an Arabic souk, they are lot more choices there as this market caters more for the Middle Easterners.

The fasting month is now almost halfway - although last night we could see it was already full moon. Today is the 14th day of fasting here. The month has gone like a breeze. The terawih prayers at the mesjids here are only 8 reka'ats.

For the occasion like previous years, the mesjids here normally invite imams with excellent Quran recitations to come to Holland during the month. For the Indonesian mesjid, they come from Indonesia and they rotate between the few Indonesian mesjids in Holland. With Isya only coming in at 9.45 pm, Terawih prayers only start around 10.15 and finish just before 10.45 pm.